billswift comments on Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge - Less Wrong

42 Post author: JesseGalef 18 October 2011 05:39PM

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Comment author: billswift 18 October 2011 06:13:50PM 4 points [-]

You mean overconfident by a factor of 20.

Comment author: JesseGalef 18 October 2011 06:21:18PM *  3 points [-]

Thanks, good catch!

[EDIT: For the record, I had accidentally written "by a factor of 40." I corrected it in the article for future readers.]